Linda Berghoff’s art explores symbolic cross-cultural experiences. Her work is a collection of many elements revealing the endless possibilities of paper when creating prints or paintings and drawings.

    After receiving her BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, she received a MFA teaching assistant scholarship in printmaking to study at Tyler’s Rome, Italy campus. While in Italy she lived, worked and exhibited with Italian artists. From that exciting experience, a supportive connection between the artists developed. As a result her teaching also evolved and now incorporates real life experiences into learning and creating art. Her work with Italian artists has convinced her that the creation of art is more than a self-absorbed exploration, in which “Art can connect real life experiences into our lives.”

    Berghoff teaches Fine Art at St. Petersburg College. She taught at Newbury College in Boston and while there received two Massachusetts art grants. She has exhibited in the Tampa Museum of Arts “Undercurrent/Overview” exhibition series, the University of Tampa, and also exhibitions in the New York area. Recently she was in the Florida Artist Group exhibition at the Leepa Rattner Museum. She also served as an assistant at the Berghoff-Cowden print workshops. www.berghoff-editions.com

    Berghoff continues to travel and experience other countries. Her main interest in the arts of other countries has always been the influence of the decorative arts, and how both western and non-western cultures use the decorative arts to integrate their way of life. While in Japan a few years ago she visited an old and traditional screenprint kimona workshop and researched the traditions of the kimona and the special fabrics made for the kimona and their significance of designs. Those designs were reminiscent to her previous fabric experience with silkscreen printmaking.  She believes her investigation of Japanese art and culture influenced not only her artwork, but also her view of how the Japanese experience in the visual arts compares to the west.